Download or read book Green Unpleasant Land written by Corinne Fowler and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside's repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class and gender have both created and deconstructed England's pastoral mythologies. In particular, the book argues that Black and British Asian writers have challenged narrow, nostalgic views of rural England but also expressed attachment to English landscapes and the natural world.